Recently again changes have taken place in my life. I have become a Greatgrandma or as I am going to be called by the little one GG. This in all reality does not bother me one bit. Some women cringe at the thought of becoming a Grandma. I did not...I was a grandma at the age of 38. It was one of the most blessed times of my life. I remember the day just like it was yesterday and now my first grandbaby has a little girl of her own.
Lucy Irene...named after me...now I have always not like the middle name Irene...don't ask me why, but I would have rather had, oh, maybe Ann, Sue, Jo, Nicole, but Irene???? My sisters named me...my dad wanted Rose Irene I have been told, but my sisters wanted Evelyn....but now that my first GG is named Lucy Irene I love it.....yes you read right I really do....
So here are some things that I have learned......not in order and not everything but some that come to me right now...
1. Nothing EVER stays the same....you go on vacation, you have to come back to work...you get older each day you live and your body changes...etc....
2. Never say Never....because that just does not stand...( remember I said I would never like the name Irene and now I love it....Never say you will never do anything or could do that....as long as you are breathing it could happen....
3. Friends you thought would be your friends for life, through thick and thin...and no matter what you could share everything with them....they would always stand by you...hey, it just doesn't happen...maybe once in a blue moon...but it doesn't happen often...especially if people are honest...
4. Families part, they move, they have there own families wanting to start their own traditions and somewhere someone gets left out....
5. The older I get the more changes there are....things that were so cotton pickin important no longer are...
6. Things that I use to fear and kept me at times from doing something that I really wanted to do I want to fear no more...one of them is flying...and I am flying to see my new GG in 2 weeks and I can't wait...
7. You can not hang on to anything...the only thing we can hang on to is Jesus...He is always here for us....and someday we if we believe will be with Him forever and ever....
8. You can not make some people like you or be nice to you no matter what you do for them or how you try if they don't like you they just plain don't like you .....and to try after you have tried and then to fret about it is just a plain waste of time...
9. I don't know everything and never will.....(at one time I thought that I did)...
10. The days go by faster then a speeding bullet....and what I do today will affect my tomorrow.....one way or the other....
Love like you have never loved, laugh as you have never laughed, pray like you have never prayed...take in the beauty that God has surrounded you by and thank Him for it....a new baby's cry, a beautiful sunset, a beautiful sunrise, a slobbery kiss from a 2 year old, a "I love you"....
